Journal of Physical Chemistry, 2004, V 108, N 19, 13 May.

LETTERS
 
 Optimal Control of Ionization Processes in NaK: 
 Comparison between Theory and Experiment
Boris Schafer-Bung, Roland Mitri, Vlasta Bonai-Kouteck,
Andreas Bartelt, Cosmin Lupulescu, Albrecht Lindinger,
tefan Vajda, Stefan M. Weber, and Ludger Woste
pp 4175 - 4179;

ARTICLES

DYNAMICS AND RELAXATION 
 
Homogeneous Reduction of Haloacetonitriles by
Electrogenerated Aromatic Radical Anions: 
Determination of the Reduction Potential of CH2CN
Abdirisak A. Isse and Armando Gennaro
pp 4180 - 4186;
 
Direct Observation of Heterogeneous Photochemistry 
on Aggregated Ag Nanocrystals Using Raman 
Spectroscopy: The Case of Photoinduced Degradation 
of Aromatic Amino Acids
Erik J. Bjerneld, Fredrik Svedberg, Patrik Johansson, 
and Mikael Kall
pp 4187 - 4193;

SPECTROSCOPY, GASEOUS CLUSTERS, AND MOLECULAR BEAMS 
 
Ethylene. Experimental Evidence for New Assignments
of Electronic Transitions in the   * Energy Region.
Absorption and Magnetic Circular Dichroism
Measurements with Synchrotron Radiation
Patricia Ann Snyder, Sylvia Atanasova, 
and Roger W. C. Hansen
pp 4194 - 4201;
 
Infrared Spectra of Dialanes in Solid Hydrogen
Lester Andrews and Xuefeng Wang
pp 4202 - 4210; 
 
Two-Dimensional Penning Ionization Electron 
Spectroscopy of 2-Aminoethanol and Related 
Molecules by He*(23S) Atoms: Influence of 
Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonding on 
Collisional Ionization
Ryo Maruyama and Koichi Ohno
pp 4211 - 4218;
 
Electronic Absorption Spectra of CnCl Radicals
(n = 5, 6) and Their Cations in Neon Matrices
Jennifer van Wijngaarden, Anton Batalov,
Ivan Shnitko, Jan Fulara, and John P. Maier
pp 4219 - 4223; 
 
Internal Motions of the Rare Gas Atom in 
Dimethyl Ether-Krypton
Biagio Velino, Sonia Melandri, 
and Walther Caminati
pp 4224 - 4227;
 
Infrared Spectrum of the Formylperoxy 
Radical in Solid Argon
Rongjing Yang, Liang Yu, Aihua Zeng, 
and Mingfei Zhou
pp 4228 - 4231; 

KINETICS; ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY 
 
Kinetics of the Reactions of Vinyl (C2H3) and Propargyl (C3H3) 
Radicals with NO2 in the Temperature Range 220-340 K
Wolf D. Geppert, Arkke J. Eskola, Raimo S. Timonen,
and Lauri Halonen
pp 4232 - 4238; 
 
Model Dependence of the Activation Energy 
Derived from Nonisothermal Kinetic Data
Deliang Zhou and David J. W. Grant
pp 4239 - 4246; 
 
High-Temperature Thermal Decomposition of 
Isobutane and n-Butane Behind Shock Waves
Matthew A. Oehlschlaeger, David F. Davidson, 
and Ronald K. Hanson
pp 4247 - 4253; 

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE, BONDING, QUANTUM CHEMISTRY, AND GENERAL THEORY 
 
Investigation of the Photoionization Mechanism
of Small Aromatic Homoclusters
Benjamin Bouvier, Philippe Millie, and Michel Mons
pp 4254 - 4260;
 
Excess Electron Attachment to Disulfide-Bridged 
L,L-Cystine. An ab Initio Study
Agnieszka Sawicka, Piotr Skurski, 
and Jack Simons
pp 4261 - 4268;
 
Conformational Effects on the Optical Rotation 
of Alanine and Proline
Magdalena Pecul, Kenneth Ruud, Antonio Rizzo, 
and Trygve Helgaker
pp 4269 - 4276;
 
Studies of Solvation Free Energies of Methylammoniums 
and Irregular Basicity Ordering of Methylamines in 
Aqueous Solution by a Combined Discrete-Continuum Model
Zhiji Cao, Menghai Lin, Qianer Zhang, and Yirong Mo
pp 4277 - 4282; 
 
Ab Initio Quality Electrostatic Atomic and Molecular 
Properties Including Intermolecular Energies from 
a Transferable Theoretical Pseudoatom Databank
Anatoliy Volkov, Xue Li, Tibor Koritsanszky, 
and Philip Coppens
pp 4283 - 4300;
 
The Field-Adapted ADMA Approach: Introducing 
Point Charges
Thomas E. Exner and Paul G. Mezey
pp 4301 - 4309; 
 
ESE-ENDOR Study and DFT Calculations on 
Oxovanadium Compounds: Effect of Axial Anionic 
Ligands on the 51V Nuclear Quadrupolar 
Coupling Constant
Constantino P. Aznar, Yiannis Deligiannakis, 
Evangelos J. Tolis, Themistoklis Kabanos,
Marcin Brynda, and R. David Britt
pp 4310 - 4321; 
 
Novel Pyramidal MB7 (M = Li, Na, K, Rb, or Cs)
Species: Structure and Aromaticity
Qian-Shu Li and Liang-Fa Gong
pp 4322 - 4325;
 
Reactivity of Carbon-Centered Radicals toward 
Acrylate Double Bonds: Relative Contribution
of Polar vs Enthalpy Effects
Jacques Lalevee, Xavier Allonas, 
and Jean-Pierre Fouassier
pp 4326 - 4334; 
 
Carbonyl Boron and Related Systems: An ab
Initio Study of B-X and YBBY (1g+), Where
X = He, Ne, Ar, Kr, CO, CS, N2 and Y = Ar, Kr, CO, CS, N2
Aristotle Papakondylis, Evangelos Miliordos, 
and Aristides Mavridis
pp 4335 - 4340; 
 
The Ground and Valence Excited States of
GaBr: A MR-CISD+Q Study
Xinzheng Yang, Meirong Lin, and Baozheng Zhang
pp 4341 - 4346;
 
Exploratory Topological Study of the Laplacian of
the Electronic Charge Density in n-Butonium Cations
R. M. Lobayan, G. L. Sosa, A. H. Jubert, 
and N. M. Peruchena
pp 4347 - 4356; 
 
Influence of Hydrogen Bond Formation on the
Photophysics of N-(2,6-Dimethylphenyl)-2,3-naphthalimide
Attila Demeter, Laszlo Ravasz, and Tibor Berces
pp 4357 - 4364;